Broadband News

OECD broadband statistics released

The OECD have released today broadband statistics for the region up to June
2010. The OECD includes 31 high/middle-income economies that were members as of
June 2010. The total number of fixed broadband subscribers in the area totalled
295 million, a small decrease in the growth rate seen in
June 2009 which peaked at 10%. Some countries helped pull this down by
having a decrease in subscriptions per 100 inhabitants over the last year.

Unsurprisingly, fibre has seen strong growth in comparison to other fixed
broadband technologies but DSL still remains the most widely used. Japan and
Korea buck this trend with over half of all broadband connections now via fibre
(Japan - 55%, Korea - 52%). DSL totals 58% of all lines in the OECD, cable 29%
and fibre 11.5%.

Whilst there are a broad range of measures compared in these statistics, they aren't the most up to date. Data come from
governments and there have been other recent statistics released which show
similar data trends.

Comments

It's amusing actually. The UK's average speed isn't bad, availability is good, but urban areas are far less well served in terms of fibre than our peers and all the noise is about rural areas getting public subsidy.

The irony.

Dixinormous

over 6 years ago

Politics of regions and countries are very different between them, however, the geography is a determinant parameter in relation to the rural area. Even in countries with high penetration of broadband services, has outstanding dues to rural areas